Amid border row with China, India says Australia will join Malabar exercise


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The US and Japan are the other countries that participate in the annual exercise, which is likely to take place next month in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: October 19, 2020 7:15:38 pm The Malabar exercise started in 1992 as a bilateral drill between the Indian Navy and the US Navy in the Indian Ocean. (Source: Indian Navy) India on Monday announced that Australia will join the upcoming Malabar exercise which effectively means that all the four member countries of the ‘Quad’ or Quadrilateral coalition will be participating in the...